Apolyton is upgrading to vBulletin 4.1.5. vBulletin 4.1.5 comes with new features, fixes, and allows us to use some cool traffic enhancing plugins. However this comes with a small cost. To upgrade Apolyton from vBulletin 4.0.6 to vBulltein 4.1.5 we must close the forums for a short while.
This is the plan:
Close the forums.
Backup the database.
Upload the new vBulletin 4.1.5 files.
Upgrade the forums.
Fix the most urgent problems.
Open the forums.
Fix the less important problems.
Apolyton will be upgraded on Sunday July 31st, 2011 at 14:00 UTC. The downtime is an hour estimated.
Preferably, I should upgrade when nobody is watching, but I must also have time for that, so I aim for the next weekend.
Keep people in the loop on when you plan to do so... a little advance notice would be nice... especially since there will be some fantasy sports drafts in progress.
As long as people are aware of the timing, they can plan for it.
Keep people in the loop on when you plan to do so... a little advance notice would be nice... especially since there will be some fantasy sports drafts in progress.
As long as people are aware of the timing, they can plan for it.
Actually, I would prefer here some flexibility with my timing. Anyway, I will do it tomorrow, and will start at 14:00 UTC, 16:00 my local time. If everything works fine it should take 1 hour.
And updated the spotlight article, to reflect this change, we are also upgrading to vBulletin 4.1.5.
We are back, we still have some issues. For some reason I could fix the editor in the Light style, but there are still the icons missing in the dark style. Anyway, I open the forums even without fixing it before. Otherwise I would waste another hour.
Of course feel free to post everything I haven't fixed yet, or haven't found, yet.
Is there a way for the site to load a mobile skin automatically on mobile devices? Thought I saw that as a 4.1 feature. Currently it shows the regular forums.
We had envisaged to incorporate an updated mobile style for 4.1.5, however development and QA to get the product to a sufficient level of quality has taken a longer period of time than we had initially envisaged, and we are not sufficiently satisfied with the style yet in its current state. We are targeting to incorporate this product in version 4.1.6. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.
Edit: Though apparently there is still a mobile style of some sort. Just not the "new" one.
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